Problem seeing an image with a 'googleusercontent' URL

[India Four Two]

I cannot see the image in this post, using Safari or Firefox on a Mac, or on an iPhone, viewing either the PPRuNe regular or mobile web pages:

http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/587616-virtual-sailing-sailonline-race-christmas-christmas-2016-a.html#post9620991

The poster assures me that she can see it. I would appreciate it if a few people could check the link and report back.

If I go into Firefox editor, I can see the code for the image:

<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3JYSTdywAEhudpbF-_ccPwAuhs1oGcDWMueInSS0tUmhJ0zu2kzBLmSJIApQyyIplV0CYEP8Glb4q XswEKHqa-dOrX-wzKZUxGpY=w1708-h961-rw-no#.jpg" border="0" alt="" class="post_inline_image" />A search confirms that there are issues with 'googleusercontent'. Does anyone here know anything about this problem?

[Saab Dastard]

No problem at all, if you are talking about the opti race, as it's the last post with a link in it. ???

SD

[noughtsnones]

Like India Four Two & confirmed by Wodrick #19 (http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/587616-virtual-sailing-sailonline-race-christmas-christmas-2016-a.html#post9622850), I could not see image in brockenspectre's #17 (http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/587616-virtual-sailing-sailonline-race-christmas-christmas-2016-a.html#post9620991) with Firefox browser. The image (of a race position table) showed with Chromium browser!

[India Four Two]

SD,

Sorry. I thought I had posted a direct link. It's not the Opti post.

It's Post 17 by brockenspectre. The last sentence in the post is:

and now... here is where the flotilla is in the Christmas race:
The image URL follows that sentence.

Here's a bigger code snippet:

<br /> This year we buddied with the Danish round Fyn race, the Silverudder Challenge, and I know it will be happening again next year too :-)<br />
<br /> and now... here is where the flotilla is in the Christmas race:<br />
<br />
<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3JYSTdywAEhudpbF-_ccPwAuhs1oGcDWMueInSS0tUmhJ0zu2kzBLmSJIApQyyIplV0CYEP8Glb4q XswEKHqa-dOrX-wzKZUxGpY=w1708-h961-rw-no#.jpg" border="0" alt="" class="post_inline_image" />
</div>
I don't see the image on a Mac and neither does Wodrick on a Windows machine.

PS Thanks, noughtnones. I didn't see your post, when I replied to SD. Interesting, but perhaps not surprising that a Google image URL shows up properly on a Google browser!

[crablab]

Interesting, but perhaps not surprising that a Google image URL shows up properly on a Google browser!

I'm not sure that's really the issue. Which browser were you trying to use in the first place?

Given that links to a valid image, any HTTP compliant browser should have no problem with it.

[ChickenHouse]

Many times when I hear such things it is a router or gateway blocking certain (spam-)server. Maybe there is something in the connection blocking googleusercontent.com ? I.e. my internal company provider does block relayed image links when pointing to dropbox public (now gone anyways) or google accounts. I would try browsing to a different file from there and see whether it is something like that.

[Saab Dastard]

Sorry for being thick!

Your link seems to suggest the googelcontent is translating a .jpg into a .webp:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3JYSTdywAEhudpbF-_ccPwAuhs1oGcDWMueInSS0tUmhJ0zu2kzBLmSJIApQyyIplV0CYEP8Glb4q XswEKHqa-dOrX-wzKZUxGpY=w1708-h961-rw-no#.jpg

Sticking the image URL only (from your code) in to both FF and IE11 results in:

Do you want to open or save Christmas2016_26Dec16.webp

AIUI, Mozilla doesn't natively support webp, neither (it seems do IE and Safari), so the browser cannot deal with it, and when embedded in HTML as in the original post, it simply doesn't appear.

So the problem seems to be a proprietary image standard that google are using, that no-one else supports.

It looks like you would have to download the "image" and then use a 3rd-party converter to view it.

SD

[India Four Two]

SD,

Thanks for your research. I had tried the same trick of posting the URL and came up with the same error. I had never heard of .webp before. I'll do some more digging.


Given that links to a valid image, any HTTP compliant browser should have no problem with it. crablab,

You are right. Any HTTP compliant browser should display the image, but it doesn't! See SD's response. It is a Google specific issue.

Here's some background to the issue:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/chicken-meets-egg-with-facebook-chrome-webp-support/

[crablab]

So the problem seems to be a proprietary image standard that google are using, that no-one else supports.


India Four Two & SD,

WebP isn't actually propitiatory at all, it's an open standard and is generally very well supported. WebM (it's sister format) is supported by "everything" except IE (which doesn't support HTML5 so that's not surprising). Although it is currently developed by Google, as I said it isn't propitiatory at all.

We make a point of supporting it in our web applications due to it's ubiquity. I am not aware of any "Google specific issues" - if anything it it is other browsers that have "specific" issues!

[Saab Dastard]

Crablab,

You may be right in that google presented the standard as open. However, the fact remains that only chrome and derivative browsers seem to actually support it, and as chrome is also owned and developed by google, I believe that proprietary is an appropriate description.

[boguing]

Chrome, yes
Edge, no
Opera, yes
Firefox, no.

[Saab Dastard]

boguing, thanks, you may add IE11 to the "no" group.

[India Four Two]

And in the Mac world:

Safari (Mac and iPhone), no
Firefox, no